Negotiating the Nude: Unclothed Bodies in Art and its Historiographies (1860s–2026).
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München, Sep 15–16, 2026 Deadline: Feb 22, 2026
The human body occupies a prominent position in highly controversial social debates. Especially unclothed, its various appearances in art and everyday life, public and private spheres as well as – more recently – digital environments induce and materialize conflicts at the same time. Yet the outrage provoked by Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass in 1863, and Olympia two years later indicates a different quality than current debates in post-industrial societies, whether allegations of indecency directed at Michelangelo’s David in Florida in 2023 or public responses on Florentine Holzinger’s opera-performance Sancta in Vienna in 2025 were concerned. Although notable instances permeate a Western . . . → En lire plus
The Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte will award two Juliane and Franz Roh Fellowships in Modern and Contemporary Art (20th–21st century) at the Studienzentrum zur Kunst der Moderne und Gegenwart at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte.
The fellowships are intended for doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars who have graduated within the last five years who are working on a project related to modern or contemporary art. Fellows are expected to partake in the activities of the ZI and to present the fellowship project. The fellowships last three months and can commence between April and October 2026. Graduate fellows will receive a monthly stipend of €2,000. Postgraduate fellows will receive €2,300 per month.
Application:
Applications are accepted in German, English, French or Italian. Please submit a CV and a project description (no more than . . . → En lire plus
Avant-Garde and Migration
10e conférence internationale du Réseau européen de recherche sur l’avant-garde et le modernisme (EAM), Stockholm, 2-4 septembre 2026.
La 10e conférence de l’EAM, qui revêt un caractère festif, sera consacrée au thème « Avant-garde et migration ».
La migration peut être comprise, dans un premier temps, comme un concept socioculturel et géopolitique lié aux acteurs et mouvements migrants d’avant-garde et de néo-avant-garde au cours du XXe siècle, ainsi qu’au paysage culturel et politique contemporain en Europe et dans le monde. Quels mécanismes de migration démographique influencent les agents de l’avant-garde et leurs collectifs? Quel rôle les artistes et intellectuels migrants, exilés ou réfugiés et leur production ont-ils joué dans la politique (culturelle) de diverses communautés nationales et ethniques? De quelle manière la dynamique des techniques . . . → En lire plus
MACCH Annual Conference – On Leaving: Contemporary Artists’ Estates and Legacies.
We are pleased to announce the call for panels, papers, and artistic research contributions for the 2026 MACCH conference in Maastricht on 19-21 March 2026. This edition of our annual conference focuses on emerging networks of care around contemporary artists’ estates and legacies, and is organized in collaboration with MERIAN (Maastricht Experimental Research in and through the Arts Network).
Many contemporary artists are now leaving behind significant material and immaterial legacies. Increasingly, their estates are approached by private market actors such as gallerists, consultants, lawyers, and financial advisors, also in the context of what has become known as ‘the great wealth’ transfer of significant assets between the baby boomer generation and their heirs. At . . . → En lire plus
TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME 6 th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – 2025 2026-2028
RESEARCH CYCLE After the Enlightenment: Histories, Debates, and Reinterpretations
INTRODUCTION Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura (hereinafter “Fondazione 1563”) has since 2013 supported research and advanced training in the field of the humanities. In a wider effort to pursue this goal, in 2020 Fondazione 1563 has launched the Turin Humanities Programme, a research initiative that allows junior scholars to work on interrelated research projects under the guidance of especially appointed Senior Fellows. THP aims at promoting two-year research projects about relevant global history topics.
Under THP in 2020 Fondazione 1563 launched a first call for application for research on the Enlightenmnent legacy: the rights of man in a global perspective, in 2021 a second call for application . . . → En lire plus
Journée d’étude « Art contemporain, migration, expériences diasporiques », organisée par le groupe de recherche QUILT, et qui se tiendra à l’INHA, salle Vasari, le 27 novembre 2025 de 9h à 17h. Le programme complet est joint à ce message, mais je vous le communique également en version texte :
9h Accueil-café et introduction. Elvan Zabunyan et le groupe de recherche QUILT (Varduhi Kirakosyan, Marguerite Leroy, Monica Seiceanu, Sara Sicolo, Elora Weill-Engerer)
9h30 Keynote Marta Dziewańska (KANAL-Centre Pompidou, Bruxelles)
10h Aby Gaye-Duparc (EHESS, CRAL)
Safi Faye, l’expérience migratoire filmée par une jeune réalisatrice sénégalaise : La Passante (1972) et Man Sa Yay (1980)
10h20 Clara Royer (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Dax Dakar D’accord (1990) : la violence du global
10h40 Questions
11h Pause
11h10 Elis Dentresangle (Université Paris . . . → En lire plus
Tenure-Sheldon Solow Professorship in the History of Architecture, New York City.
Fine Arts of New York University Application deadline: Dec 15, 2025 apply.interfolio.com/175115
The Institute of Fine Arts of New York University seeks applicants at the rank of Assistant Professor for the Sheldon H. Solow Professorship in the History of Architecture, a tenure track position. We invite applications from architectural historians working on the period after 1400 in any geographic area complementary to those currently represented by Institute faculty and associated faculty. We also encourage candidates with relevant curatorial experience. The successful candidate will contribute to the Institute’s commitment to methodological and theoretical innovation.
The Institute of Fine Arts is a graduate educational institution serving MA and PhD students in art history, archaeology, and fine . . . → En lire plus
Photographic Interiors: between Staging and Documentation
From family pictures to police photographs and social surveys, the photographic documentation of private interiors often finds pictures in front of the lens. It turns the images in the interior, along with their often fleeting arrangements, into fixed coordinates. It also reminds us how our lives are surrounded by images. Photography, along with other printed image technologies, is a major component of the ordinary visual environment that papers domestic surfaces, at the same time at it proves to be a particularly adequate means of documenting interiors.
This conference aims to think through this mirror effect of photographed photographs, by considering together images of domestic worlds and everyday image practices anchored in the dwelling. The aim is twofold: to examine the various ways . . . → En lire plus
The Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art welcomes applications for pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, and senior fellowships, and a new non-residential doctoral dissertation completion fellowship.
Applications are open now for a range of fellowship opportunities in the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Pre-Doctoral Fellowships (two years) are aimed at current PhD students working on their thesis. Post-Doctoral Fellowships (one or two years), for those within seven years of receiving their doctoral degree, are intended for scholars working on a book project. The Senior Fellowship (one year) is for established scholars with a publication record commensurate with their career stage. The one-year Non-Residential Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship is for PhD students in . . . → En lire plus
“Découper suivant les pointillés”: images manufacturées à manipuler (XVIIIe-XXIe siècles)
Colloque international Organisation: Johanna Daniel, Université Lyon 2 – LARHRA, Hélène Valance, INHA – InVisu
Paris, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art 31 mars-1er avril 2026
(English version below)
Découpé, plié, piqué, brodé, collé, ou animé par des jeux de transparence, le papier, matière aussi fragile qu’omniprésente dans le quotidien, est un support de créativité autour duquel s’articulent une multitude de savoir-faire. Travaillée par tous ces gestes, l’image imprimée sur le papier quitte le monde des surfaces planes pour affirmer sa matérialité : les « petites constructions » commercialisées par l’imprimerie Pellerin à Epinal à la fin du XIXe . . . → En lire plus
Chaque année, l’Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis organise un concours international qui vise à sélectionner les pensionnaires qui seront accueillis à la Villa Médicis à Rome pour une résidence de création, d’expérimentation . . . → En lire plus
Pensionnaires en histoire de l’art et restauration du patrimoine Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis
2020-2025
2020 Restauration du patrimoine Coralie Barbe (https://villamedici.it/resident/coralie-barbe/) Histoire de l’art Valentina Hristova (https://villamedici.it/resident/valentina-hristova/) Gaylord Brouhot (https://villamedici.it/resident/gaylord-brouhot/) Sara Vitacca (https://villamedici.it/resident/sara-vitacca/) 2021 Histoire de l’art Samir Boumediene (https://villamedici.it/resident/samir-boumediene/) 2022 Restauration du patrimoine Hortense de Corneillan (https://villamedici.it/resident/hortense-de-corneillan/) Histoire de l’art Marion Grébert (https://villamedici.it/resident/marion-grebert/) Ariane Varela Braga (https://villamedici.it/resident/ariane-varela-braga/) 2023 Restauration du patrimoine Laure Cadot (https://villamedici.it/resident/laure-cadot/) Histoire de l’art Morad Montazami (https://villamedici.it/resident/morad-montazami/)
2024 Histoire de l’art Alessandro Gallicchio (https://villamedici.it/resident/alessandro-gallicchio/) Nicolas Sarzeaud (https://villamedici.it/resident/nicolas-sarzeaud/) Pierre Von-Ow (https://villamedici.it/resident/pierre-von-ow/) 2025 Histoire de . . . → En lire plus
Re:assemblages Symposium
Alliance Française de Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria, Nov 4–05, 2025
Provocation: What does it mean to think with African and Afro-diasporic art archives as living, contested, and future-shaping spaces?
The 20th century can be read as a formative ecotonal space—an unsettled, generative borderland where networks fractured and reformed, collaborations ignited, and tensions gave way to new modes of relation. Within this compressed terrain, distinct ecologies of African and Afro-diasporic thought and practice took shape, producing postcolonial libraries, and archives that carried with them emergent aesthetic and epistemic registers—unfinished, insurgent, and alive with possibility.
Marking the inaugural symposium of the Re:assemblages programme, this two-day . . . → En lire plus
‘Algérie Indépendante : Art, architecture et idéologie dans la postcolonie
Ce colloque entend interroger de manière critique les croisements entre esthétique visuelle et idéologie politique en Algérie depuis son indépendance en 1962. Après 132 ans de colonialisme, ponctués par une guerre de libération de huit ans, l’indépendance politique de l’Algérie a été suivie d’un désir d’émancipation culturelle. En interrogeant la manière dont les arts visuels, l’architecture, l’espace urbain et d’autres formes visuelles traduisent, reflètent ou questionnent la révolution algérienne, ce workshop explore les articulations entre la visualité et l’idéologie dans le contexte postcolonial.
Comment les recherches récentes peuvent-elles interroger les formes artistiques, . . . → En lire plus
New horizons in textile art history: critical perspectives on post-war textile art from Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltics
edited by Magdalena Furmaniuk, Sandra Imko and Monica Seiceanu
In the 1960s, textile art underwent a profound transformation. Movements such as La Nouvelle Tapisserie (also known in Poland as nowa tkanina) and Fiber Art emerged in parallel across Europe and North America, reimagining weaving not merely as a decorative craft but as a site of conceptual and material experimentation. While La Nouvelle Tapisserie often carried a distinctly European character, Fiber Art became a more international, Anglophone designation for similar developments. Both challenged traditional hierarchies in the arts, expanding the field’s formal and critical vocabulary. Artists from Central and Eastern Europe played a crucial role in this . . . → En lire plus
The Fondation Le Corbusier announces a research grant of €15,000, aimed at funding new research on Le Corbusier’s work.
Regulations One of the fundamental missions of the Fondation, as defined in its statutes, is “to encourage research in the spirit defined by the written and constructed work of Le Corbusier”. To this end, the Fondation Le Corbusier offers an annual grant of up to €15,000.
The call for applications is aimed primarily at young researchers in the history of architecture, art or landscape, in heritage conservation and restoration, as well as architects, designers, artists and writers, French or foreign, wishing to deepen their knowledge of Le Corbusier’s work on the basis of the documentation held in the archives of the Fondation Le Corbusier.
Applicants must submit a research . . . → En lire plus
Galerie Gmurzynska is currently looking to fill a full-time position for an Art Historian based in Zürich.
Job Description. For 60 years Galerie Gmurzynska has been a leading international art gallery, specializing in masterpieces of both classic modern and post war contemporary art; it is the leading gallery for the Avant-garde and early 20th century abstraction. During the past six decades Galerie Gmurzynska has published over 300 important books, which are renowned in the field of art history and form part of major art libraries worldwide.
Responsibilities include (but are not limited to): – In-depth research of Modern Art works – Writing for both publications and . . . → En lire plus
EXHIBITING THE HOLOCAUST 1945–2025: GENEALOGIES AND LEGACIES
Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Nov 13–14, 2025 Deadline: Jun 30, 2025
The first exhibitions on the Holocaust were organized in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. These were mostly created by survivors, either individually or through newly established institutions such as historical commissions, which were active in many DP camps and across Europe. These early exhibitions presented materials gathered to document the persecution and genocide of Jews in Europe. This unprecedented effort laid the groundwork for the establishment of memorials and museums in later decades and shaped the display strategies of future exhibitions. This conference seeks to look back and historicize the practice of Holocaust exhibitions from 1945 to the present, reflecting on different strategies, genealogies, and legacies. . . . → En lire plus
Call for Instructor Applications: to teach The History of Art, Media & Technology.
The BFA in Art, Media and Technology program at Parsons Paris invites qualified applicants to apply for a part-time teaching position in the History of Art, Media & Technology (1850-today) for fall 2025. This 15-week seminar course, taught in English, explores the evolution of mixed media and New Media art and its relationship to art history, society, and technology (see detailed description below).
Qualifications: -Applicants must have legal working papers in France -Applicants should have an MA or PhD in art history / art theory OR be artist practitioners with an MFA and relevant teaching experience. -Applicants should have experience teaching in English at the university level, and be familiar with student-centered learning and dialogic . . . → En lire plus
La bourse / résidence de recherche et d’écriture Mémoires vives a pour ambition d’activer la pensée et l’œuvre d’un artiste ou d’une artiste historique représentée par la Galerie Christophe Gaillard et de soutenir la recherche contemporaine dans le domaine des arts. Chaque année, les recherches de l’autrice ou de l’auteur invité porteront un regard nouveau et approfondi sur l’œuvre de l’un de nos Estates afin de contribuer à sa meilleure compréhension et à son rayonnement.
Le programme Mémoires vivesoffre ainsi des conditions privilégiées pour la recherche et l’écriture dans le cadre de La Résidence | Le Tremblay, situé à Orgères, en Normandie. Les essais théoriques et critiques rédigés sont publiés par les Éditions Sombres torrents et réunis au . . . → En lire plus
